Car door



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L.. A. HOERR CAR /DOOR` Filed Sept. 23. 1922 Patented inne l2, 1923.

entre stars LOUIS A. HOERR, 0F ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CAR DOOR.

Application led September 23, 1922. Serial No. 590,048.

To all 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known thatvI,- LOUIS A. Homin, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, UnitedStates of America, have invented certain new and useful Car Doors, ofwhich the following is such a full, clear, and exact description as willenable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart'of this specification.

Heretofore it has been customary to provide car doors with astrengthening strip in the form of an angle iron or Z-bar, one web orflange of the strip abutting directly against the lower edge of thedoor. I have found that water is conducted between the lower edge of thedoor and strengthening strip by the grooves in the face of the doorsiding. As no effective provision is made for draining oif this water,nor any provision whatever for Ventilating the lower edge of the door,the result is that this part of the door remains almost constantly moistwith the result that in a comparatively short time the wood becomesdecayed so that the fastening bolts are easily torn out and thestrengthening strip carried away.

The object of my invention is to so construct the car door as not onlyto drain off the water from the lower edge thereof, but also to provideeffective Ventilating means for the same so as to overcome the objectionabove referred to.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the form of door structuremade in accordance with my invention, together with a modificationthereof, Figure l is a. vertical section, Figure 2 is a section taken onthe line 2 2 of Figure l, Figure 3 is a section taken on the line 3 3 ofFigure l and Fig ure 4 is a view similar to Figure l but having amodification.

5 indicates a portion of the side of a car and 6 the door battens.Secured to the battens 6 are siding strips 7 vertically disposed andtongued and grooved together. .These strips 7 have their edges chamferedin the usual manner so as to form vertical channels 8 in the face of thedoor producing run-ways for rain or melted snow. In addition to thesechannels 8, when wide siding strips are used, the strip has a similarcentral channel 9 formed in it.

In carrying out the preferred form of my to secure a suitableVentilating spacebetweenv the lower edge of the door and the Z-ba'r, Iprovide the said bar with suitable spacing stops. These spacing stopsmay be formed by punching up portions 14 of the central web of the Z-baras shown in the drawings. This construction not only secures an adequatelVentilating cell l5 but also provides openings 1G for draining off thewater and admitting air to the Ventilating cell l5. A guide bracket 17,secured to the car 5 by bolts 18, cooperates with the lower flange ofthe Z-bar to prevent the door from swinging outwardly.

In Figure 4L I have shown a modification in which the Z-bar 10 and flatbar 1l are replaced by a single U-shaped bar 19. This U- bar has spacingstops 14 struck up from its central part in the same manner as the Z-bar hereinbefore described. In this construction, the bracket 17 isreplaced by a bracket 17 adapted to cooperate with the front flange ofthe U-bar 19 to prevent the outward swing o-f the door. Y

By my construction, the water is effectively drained from the lower edgeof the door so as to prevent soaking the same where the end of the grainis exposed and at the same time adequate ventilation is secured torapidly dry out the moisture which is necessarily imparted to it inspite of the drainage.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

l. In a device of the class described, the combination with a woodendoor, of a reinforcing strip provided with a vertical and a horizontalweb, the horizontal. web being positioned away from the lower edge ofthe door to form a Ventilating space to dry the wood.

2. In a device of the class described, the

combination with a wooden door, of a reinforcing strip provided with avertical and a horizontal web, fastening means for said strip, and astop independent of the fastening means to position the horizontal webaway from the lower edge of the door to form a Ventilating space to drythe wood.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination with a woodendoor, of a rein- I stopVl lt'orcingstripr 'provided with a y'verticaland a horizontal web fastening means for 'said strip, and an integralstop independent of the fastening means to position ythe horizontal webaway from the lower edge of the door to form a Ventilating space to drythe woede.' 4. In a device of the, classdescribed, the combination witha door, ofa reinforcing strip vprovided withy a vertical `and ahorizontal, web 'and 'carrying a stop .to position its yyontal Webaw'yfrom the loweredgeof oortorform a ventilati-ngfspacfe, .'s'aid veilgcutI out of the' sti-ip' to o'rn a dihngand,.Ventilating opening atea-faafdevi'ce 'of thef'class ,des combination with a door provided withchannels in its vertical face?, of' af reinforcing strip provided `witha vertical andho'rizontal web, the "horizontal web being positioned awayromthe lower kedge ofthe door to form a drainage` space communicatingwith the channels in the face of the door.

`6. In a device of the class described, the

lcornloinati'on with' aw'ooden door comprising

